Higginbottom and Mannock
Higginbottom & Mannock of Crown Ironworks, West Gorton, Manchester.
Makers of steam engines and overhead cranes.
1878 Company founded by Lloyd Higginbottom and Thomas Mannock.
1881 'A New Travelling Hoist for Mills and Warehouses'. [1]
1886 100-ton overhead crane for Armstrong, Mitchell and Co, one of several supplied to the company.[2]
c.1900 Supplied an overhead crane for Rathmines Power Station, Dublin [3]
c.1901 20-ton hand-operated overhead travelling crane for Auckland Electric Tramways Co Ltd[4]
1901 Received an order for eleven electric cranes — two 20-ton, four 10-ton, and five 5-ton cranes for the new British Westinghouse factory in Trafford Park. [5]
c.1903 Supplied a 50-ton overhead crane to Manors Power Station in Newcastle upon Tyne. The crane has been preserved in situ at the 'CastleGate' in central Newcastle
1904 Supplied the electric overhead cranes for the new works of Graham, Morton and Co.
1906 Two electric overhead travelling cranes for the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway car sheds[6]
1907 'Twelve 30-cwt. electric jib cranes are to be installed by Messrs. Higginbottom and Mannock, of Manchester, for the roofs of the new warehouses at the Avonmouth Dock, Bristol.'[7]
1913 Advert: 'FOR SALE.— 20 Ton Electrical Travelling Crane, 51ft. 6ins. span, Higginbottom and Mannock, travels 140 feet per minute, cross traverse 60 feet per minute, lifting 3 tons at 50ft. per minute.— May be seen at work Messrs. Mather and Platt, Ltd., Salford Iron Works, Manchester.' [8]
1922 25-ton electric overhead travelling crane for the Blackpool Tramways and Electricity Committee. [9]
1925 The company was voluntarily liquidated.[10]
1928 A 15-ton double span overhead travelling crane was included in the sale of the Dominion Works, Stocks Lane, Barnsley [11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Design and Work' magazine, 8 January 1881
- ↑ Newcastle Chronicle - Saturday 16 October 1886
- ↑ 'The Engineer' 7th Sept 1900
- ↑ [1] Article in ‘Progress’ (NZ) Vol 1 Issue 4, 4 February 1906
- ↑ Southport Guardian - Saturday 22 June 1901
- ↑ Railway Times - 1 December 1906
- ↑ Financial News - Wednesday 04 September 1907
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 22 November 1913
- ↑ Blackpool Times - Tuesday 07 March 1922
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33090/page/6463/data.pdf
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 28 January 1928